In openSUSE 10.0 & openSUSE 11.0, enabling Desktop effects or Compiz Fusion can cause Video Playback issues and in some cases, there will not be any video displayed. This happens on Intel Display chipset based PCs and Laptops. The problem seems to be with the Intel Display (XV) drivers. The XVideo extension is not composite aware and draws blue instead of video on areas where the composite manager is doing work. To workaround this issue, you need to switch favorite video player’s output from XV to X11, XImage or XShm. NOTE: Doing this has can cause degraded performance issues on your Desktop or laptop. ThisRead More →

VLC media player is a free opensource cross-Platform media player and streaming server for Linux,UNIX,Windows, MacOS and many other *NIX versions. VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.Read More →

Miro 1.2 is a free opensource Video and InternetTV player which can play almost all known standard video formats and play online video contents. Some of the video formats include MPEG, Quicktime,AVI, H.264,Divx,Windows Media, Flash Video. Miro is great to watch online video contents like contents from Youtube. Features includeRead More →

Are you one of those people like me who had this weird problem with Online Videos. When you play videos from online services like Youtube, Google Vidoes. This can happen with any website that hosts flash videos. Flash Videos have their own sound settings. However, to resolve this problem install the latest version of Flash Player from the Yast repositories. Switch user to “root” and install latest stable Flash Player: SAIBABA:~ # yast2 –install flash-player Once done, reboot your system. This should resolve the problem. Open your browser and play Online videos and you should now watch videos ……..with Sound!!!Read More →